D&D 5E (2024) Circle Casting is gonna break a lot of games

[Distracted DM]

I don't see this as an issue in play, especially if you are a fighter as you get a bunch of weapon masteries and at level 9 the ability to use ones other than the one for that weapon. More often than not I have more masteries than I have weapons when playing a fighter.

The limited number can be an issue for a Rogue, Ranger or Paladin, but I think that is part of making the Fighter and Barbarian unique.



The feat is very weak, but it is worth considering for a Bladelock, Valor Bard or Bladesinger and if you are not going to take the feat you really should consider multiclassing for mastery.

I'm not up on 5.5e optimization, but I'd guess that multiclassing would provide more benefits than using a feat for masteries- depends on class ofc but in 5e I had heavy optimizer players taking dips for stuff like armor proficiency (1st level artificer, the rest wizard, so they'd get armor and shield proficiency and not lose spell slot progression).